[HPFGU-OTChatter] Waaay off-topic, but my cat has gone missing .....

[Sheryll Townsend]

--- rainy_lilac at yahoo.com wrote:
> I am pretty distraught. 
> 
> I know that there is nothing anyone here can
> possibly do, but my cat 
> Parvati has been missing since yesterday evening,
> and there is no 
> sign of her anywhere. Her sister Kali is very
> confused and keeps 
> crying at the windows. She has gone off before, but
> never for this 
> long. (Both kitties are housecats, but Parvati is
> the adventurous 
> one. She is the closest thing to having a pet monkey
> that I know of.)
> 
> My biggest fear is that someone will find her and
> decide to keep her 
> for themselves. She is a breathtakingly lovely
> abyssinian with 
> apricot belly fur and pretty facial markings.
> 
> If anyone ahs any experience with this sort of
> thing, or advice to 
> give, I'd appreciate it. I am doing everything I can
> think of. I have 
> left dishes of food everywhere to tempt her, and I
> have search every 
> nook and cranny of the house, under the porch, the
> dumpsters, you 
> name it....
> 
> Thanks for listening!
> 
> *Sniff*
> 
> Suzanne
> 
Do not despair. I had a similar experience with Jake,
the cat we had before we bought this house. He just
went out one day and didn't come back for a week. He
just showed up at the door at 1 am, meowing for food.
Turns out he'd been making friends in the
neighbourhood, just going from house to house! If
you're really worried, though, I would print up a few
flyers and post them around the neighbourhood, that
seems to work around here.

On a different note, here's what happened to Jake in
the end. He ended up being the neighbourhood cat and
we left him behind when we moved. He was our cat by
default, having been left to us by a former room-mate.
Anyway, my daughter visits our old neighbourhood quite
often and see him most of the time. He's still making
his way from house, and someone takes him in for the
winter, a different someone everytime. He seems to
like this arrangement. The 2 cats we have now have
become outdoor cats recently and are home every time
they think food is on the schedule. Oddly enough,
during the hot spell we just had, they refused to come
indoors and cool off. They seem to have food a nice
shady place (in the dirt, I might add, judging by the
looks of them!) and I put water on the back deck. They
wander in for food - in the back door, a quick bite to
eat and out the front door!

Sheryll, hoping that Parvati has Jake-like tendencies
and is just out 'making friends'

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"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup."

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